Effects of direct sympathetic and vagus nerve stimulation on the physiology of the whole heart - A novel model of isolated Langendorff perfused rabbit heart with intact dual autonomic innervation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 319-329

  Ng, G André ^a   Brack, Kieran E ^a   Coote, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRUG; HORMONE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REFLEX; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0034980333     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8602146     Document Type: Article

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